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Ophthalmologist stripped of medical licence

A Salaberry-de-Valleyfield ophthalmologist has been stripped of his medical licence for practicing illegally with an “indignant attitude.”

Quebec’s Collège des médecins, the professional order of the province’s physicians, permanently revoked Hachmi Hammami’s licence after he continued treating patients despite a successful injunction in December 2014 to bar him from practising.

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The College’s disciplinary documents state that after being barred from practising, Hammami continued to see patients and write prescriptions — even threatening pharmacists who refused to fill them.

Hammami also served an eight-month prison sentence in 2013 for fraud and extortion after laundering large sums of money from banking institutions and investors to purchase medical equipment or to develop a medical practice in Nigeria, the College’s disciplinary documents state.

According to the documents, Hammami also omitted information on his income tax forms for three years, failing to mention to both revenue agencies and the Collège des médecins that he had previously been convicted of a criminal offence.